Then they all shouted, “We’ll go, we’ll go, since you treat guests thus.” At once they bundled out of the room and disappeared.
On the following day he had oxen killed and a sacrifice offered to these devils, and they returned no more.
Note.—Men have been killed by goblins. This is not so much due to the fact that goblins are wicked as to the fact that men are afraid of them. Many died in North Ham-kyong, but those again who were brave, and clove them with a knife, or struck them down, lived. If they had been afraid, they too would have died.
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THE KING OF YOM-NA (HELL)
[Pak Chom was one of the Royal Censors, and died in the Japanese War of 1592.]